Biden’s Performance Won’t Win the Undecideds

I can’t imagine anyone but the rabid MSNBC type liked the angry, drunk Joe Biden mumbling, smirking, and talking over Ryan very much. Biden frankly acted like a dick, not the Cheney or Rumsfield kind of dick, but rather belligerent drunk kind of dick. Even though I wanted Ryan to pop Biden in the mouth for interrupting him, he came across as professional.

My thought is that women, especially, were turned off by Biden the asshole.

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Yes, it must be discouraging to see the vice president mop the floor with your golden boy and great hope. Unlike his lie-filled acceptance speech (savaged by fact-checkers as one of the most dishonest ever delivered at a major party convention), Ryan lies were confronted and easily slapped-down by Biden. Not only was Ryan exposed for being a liar (there were twenty-four separate whoppers, just three short of the number uttered in the first debate by the Tommy Flinagan/Joe Isuzu style pathological liar heading the ticket), but also as a fraud (his tax and budgetary ideas collapsed like a house of cards) and rank hypocrite (pleading for stimulus funds after condemning the program). The icing on the cake was his exposure as a know-nothing on foreign and defense policy, particularly his embarassing, non-sensical ramblings in reaction to the Afghanistan question.

Conservatives – knowing that they clearly lost this encounter – are now lashing out at Biden for being rude and interrupting (of course, excusing Romney’s boorish behavior in the first debate) and making outlandish, fact-free assertions like the vice-president was drunk. It turns out that given his family’s history of alcoholism, Biden doesn’t drink and therefore wouldn’t be drunk. To paraphrase Lloyd Bentsen – I know Joe Biden, and Joe Biden is no John Boehner.